Jean-Christophe Rouzet

Jean-Christophe Rouzet (died 1668) was a French Royal Army soldier during the War of Devolution. In 1668, Rouzet was one of 2,000 soldiers who protested against King Louis XIV of France's perceived failure to honor the soldiers who had fought in the war, and he hanged himself from construction scaffolding at Versailles in front of the King, Philippe I, Duke of Orleans, and their escorts. His suicide made Louis aware of the army's mutiny.